Christmas Carol: The Movie - #044

What happens when you take a classic story from 1843 everyone has already heard a thousand times, pay a warehouse full of animators to painstakingly hand draw the animation in the era of Pixar box office dominance and toss two obnoxious mice doing their best Mr. Bean impression over half of the film? A critical and box office failure that would all but be forgotten if it wasn’t for Kate Winslet flirting with pop music stardom and Nicolas Cage showing up for two minutes to do his best impression of a British ghost with an American accent. So, join us as we breakdown a movie you’ve probably never seen nor heard of and if you have probably don’t remember: 2001’s Christmas Carol: The Movie

Do we really need to tell you the synopsis? It’s A Christmas Carol but mildly different than usual. This time around Ebenezer Scrooge is even more wooden and boring than usual but slightly younger and is given a second chance to be with the love of his life after being visited by three ghosts in the night who show him his past, how he affects the people in his present and what his life will become if he doesn’t change his ways….for the six thousandth time…

Christmas Carol: The Movie stars SEVEN time Academy Award nominated actress Kate Winslet who sang the song “What If” for this film which seems to be the only thing anyone remembers from it, two-time BAFTA nominated actor who will sadly always be remembered as the bad guy from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (at least to me) Simon Callow, Dumbledore himself (the second one everyone hated, not the first one that died) legendary Irish-English theater and film actor Sir Michael Gambon, and of course the only non-British actor in the cast who never even tries to do an accent despite having like 12 lines, Academy Award winning actor and the ghostest with the mostest Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.